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Life explores integrity, hoping to fulfill all exploding polypathic curiosities polyphonic. How might history rewrite humanity if those who adventured out and eagerly invaded felt more reluctant to dominate? More sure that their long-term survival in this, or any, non-native land required them to first learn those languages at hand, and adopt them as their creolizing own. Would European colonization outward look more like global metamorphosis, transubstantiating communion inward? Would the language of democracy recognize no dualistic divide between cooperative health and co-investing wealth of cultures? If invading civilizations had been wiser we could have earlier seen curiosity best listens and learns native civilities from what has been exegetically in cultural place, before knowing how and what and when and where to displace our own first language preconceptions. How could I communicate my invasive wisdom into your language of experience of hope and anxiety unless I have first learned your expressions, verbal and nonverbal, pitched and rhythmed by enculturing flows of Earth's nurturing and restricting natures? How would U.S. democracy unfold in First Nation language? Where Earth and water and wind and fire individually perhaps, and certainly together, have veto power over healthy WinWin anthro-choice. And, animal and tree spirits share our prime universal suffrage, voting Yes through healthy balancing increase and disinvesting No through internal climates of decline. We would learn language for trusts and mistrusts of late summer trees already falling leaves turned yellow along colonizing lanes of diesel cultures. We would not deny internal and external climates of growing rabid pathology, idolatry of LeftBrain dominant patriarchal capitalism, speaking harshly yet deniable abstractly of polysyllabic demise, dissonance of denying language expressing First Nation climates inside as outside up and down back and forth imaginations within enculturing languages of time. Healthy democracy would not merely debate reasonable extremities of over-heating Earth's survival, but would center focus on regeneratively rediscovering past and future optimizing reasons toward reweaving nature-spirits discerning climate health as optimizing wealth both inside yin nurturing and outside yang cooperative, universally uniting democratic control. Explorers seeking further curiosities recreating what's next, together, gathering nature-spirit voices deferring to more original health enculturation/decomposition histories, ebb and flow of nurturing Earth, multiculturing languages speaking through passing lights and darks of Time incarnating healthier climates of goodwill.

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